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INDEX II. 



Voelcker (Prof.) on tlie composition of 

 American phosphate of lime, 58; on the 

 corrosive action of smoke on building- 

 stones, ib. ; on basic phosphates of lime, 

 ib. 



Vogel (Dr.), description of the Ajuh, a 

 kind of whale found in the river Benue 

 (Central Africa), in Sept. 1855, 98. 



Wages of labour in Glasgow, and the west 

 of Scotland, on the money-i-ate of, 155. 



Waller (Dr. Augustus), experimental re- 

 searches on the eye, and observations 

 on the circulation of the blood in the 

 vessels of the conjunctiva, of the iris, 

 of the ciliary ligament, and of the 

 choroid membrane, during life, as seen 

 under the compound microscope, 100. 



Walsh (Prof. R. H.) on the statistics of 

 crime for the last ten years, 159 ; on the 

 present export of silver to the East, 161. 



Ward (W. Sykes) on albuminized collo- 

 dion, 58. 



Warwickshire, on some new species of 

 corals in the lias of, 64. 



Water, on the relative distribution of land 

 and, as affecting climate at different 

 geological epochs, 66 ; on the quantity 

 of heat developed by, when violently 

 agitated, 165. 



Waters, on the salts in the Cheltenham 

 and other mineral, 50. 



Waves, 23. 



Welsh (Mr.), description of a self-regis- 

 tering anemometer by R. Beckley, 38 ; 

 description of a thermometer for mea- 

 suring fluctuations of temperature, by 

 B. Stewart, 47; instructions for the 

 graduation of boiling-point thermome- 

 ters, intended for the measurement of 

 heights, 49. 



Weights, plan for simphfying and im- 

 proving the, of this countr}^, 146. 



Wheat-grain, on the composition of, 173. 



Whewell (Rev. W.) on the reasons for 

 describing the moon's motion as a mo- 

 tion about her axis, 3 1 . 



Whitehouse (Wildman) on the construc- 

 tion and use of an instrument for deter- 

 mining the value of intermittent or 

 alternating electric currents for pur- 

 poses of practical telegraphy, 19; on 

 the law of squares — is it applicable or 

 not to the transmission of signals in 

 submarine circuits?, 21. 

 Wicklow, on the alteration of clay-slate 

 and gritstone into mica-schist and 

 gneiss by the granite of, 68. 

 Williams (Dr. Thomas) on the mechanism 

 of respiration in the family of Echinidae, 

 101 ; on the fluid system of the nema- 

 toid entozoa, ib. 

 Wiltshire drift, additional evidence of 



the fossil musk-ox from the, 72. 

 Wirral peninsula, on the growth of the 



population of the, 143. 

 Woodall (Captain) on barometrical and 

 thermometrical observations at Scar- 

 borough, 49 ; on the evidence of a reef 

 of lower lias rock, extending from 

 Robin Hood's Bay to the neighbour- 

 hood of Flamborough Head, 80. 

 Worcestershire, on some new species of 



corals in the lias of, 64. 

 Workhouses and charitable institutions, 

 aphoristic notes on sanitary statistics of, 

 149. 

 World, on the most ancient map of the, 



111. 

 Worsley (P. J.) on a new process for 



making and melting steel, 59. 

 Wright (Henry) on the use of the gramme 



in chemistry, 60. 

 Wright (Dr. Thomas) on the occurrence 

 of the upper lias ammonites in the 

 (so-called) basement beds of the inferior 

 oolite, 80. 



Xiphodon, on the genus, 72. 



Zoology, 90. 



Zoophytes, notice of some new genera 

 and species of British, 90. 



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